an unusually severe punishment, and also disregards section twelve of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This section states that no person should be subjected to harsh and unusual punishment proving this issue legally wrong in Canada. The severity of this crime in a whole varies greatly from one country to another. In some countries in the middle east a person can be executed for something as trivial as robbery. Governments' have been debating this issue for many yea!
             rs to determine whether the punishment is too harsh. 5
             One question that arises in most debates is that what happens if the person was wrongly convicted, and an innocent person is sent to death row. In November nineteen-eighty-nine "Toronto lawyer Clayton Ruby told Amnesty International supporters that he has no faith in the infallibly of the Canadian justice system, because it wrongfully condemned innocent people". He also spoke of Donald Marshall a Mic Mac Indian from Nova Scotia as one example of an innocent man who would have been executed if Canad
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